Frederick Franssen

Fréderick Franssen (1977) is horn player in the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He studied horn with the well-known horn pedagogue Erich Penzel at the Maastricht Academy of Music, where he graduated cum laude in 2002.

Fréderick has previously played with the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, among others. He was also a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, where he played with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Seiji Osawa and Pierre Boulez. He has also played as a guest player in almost all Dutch symphony orchestras.
Since 2000 he has played with the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation, first with the then Radio Symphony Orchestra and since 2005 with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.

Besides his work for the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Fréderick performs as a soloist and plays chamber music.

For Challenge Classics Records, Fréderick recorded a solo album with his colleagues from the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring the horn concertos of Christoph Förster, Carl Heinrich Graun and Johann Joachim Quantz.

Since 2017, he has also been a principal study teacher in horn at the Tilburg Conservatoire (Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, the Netherlands).

Fréderick plays on horns by Klaus Fehr. He himself contributed to the development of these instruments, which are also more and more in use among his colleagues.